The 25 biggest IT companies in North America climbed a combined 259 spots in the 2016 Fortune 500 rankings as their sales grew by a total of $49.4 billion and profits grew by a cumulative $4.46 billion.

The company is also introducing Xi Cloud Services which allows services like disaster recovery to be natively run on the cloud, either on the Nutanix cloud or on the Google Cloud Platform, thanks to a new strategic relationship.

One of the only significant differences between the two platforms is in switching and Dell EMC said it is keen to reduce the engineering, support, and maintenance work of keeping two very similar platforms.

Partners said the appointment is a signal that the 22 year HPE veteran who has led some of the most critical initaitives for the company in the last several years, is in line to become the next CEO of HPE.

XChange 2017 featured dozens of vendors – including Extreme, Ingram Micro, Ruckus Wireless and many others – promoting their automation platforms, data backups, cybersecurity solutions and other offerings. Here are 30 products that stood out from the pack.